February 23, 2026 @ 8:35 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

RevSpring has acquired TrustCommerce, a provider of end-to-end integrated healthcare payment and security solutions. The combined company will accelerate innovation in financial engagement and integrated payments, helping provider and payer organizations simplify payment complexity, consolidate vendors, and improve operational control from transaction through reconciliation. “This… Read More

February 23, 2026 @ 8:34 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Payra, a B2B payments and accounts receivable automation platform, has raised a growth equity investment of $15 million from Edison Partners. Payra helps construction and building supplier companies modernize cash collection without replacing existing ERP systems. The company’s software integrates directly with accounting systems such… Read More

February 23, 2026 @ 12:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

PitchBook, a private capital market intelligence platform, this week announced the launch of PitchBook Valuation Estimates, a daily, standardized valuation framework designed to improve transparency in private markets by delivering a consistent, independent, and data-informed valuation signal across thousands of VC-backed companies. Built to reflect how markets are… Read More

February 22, 2026 @ 2:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Wirex, a full-stack crypto card issuer and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider, this week unveiled Stablecoin Push-to-Card, powered by Visa Direct. Via Wirex BaaS APIs, partners can embed Stablecoin Push-to-Card and deliver stablecoin-funded payouts directly to recipients’ eligible cards worldwide, turning on a familiar “paid to card”… Read More

February 21, 2026 @ 12:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Monark Markets, a New York-based fintech company building the rails connecting brokerage firms and wealth platforms to private markets, has confirmed $8.1 million in strategic financing. The round is led by F-Prime with participation from The Treasury, Commerce Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, and BBAE Holdings…. Read More

February 21, 2026 @ 10:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Midnight Foundation announced that Blockdaemon and Shielded Technologies have signed on as federated node operators for the Midnight Network, “the fourth-generation blockchain bringing rational privacy to Web3.” The additions bring the network to four, joining previously announced partners Google Cloud and NASDAQ listed… Read More

February 20, 2026 @ 6:37 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A global study released this week by BVNK suggests that stablecoins are increasingly mainstream. BVNK’s Stablecoin Utility Report surveyed more than 4,600 early adopters and crypto-natives in 15 countries. The study was carried out by YouGov in partnership with Coinbase and Artemis. Crypto-natives and early… Read More

February 20, 2026 @ 6:32 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Web3 minds were focused on tokenized RWAs, stablecoins, Bitcoin and AI this week. Tokenized RWA interest surging “The steady growth that we’ve seen in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), even as the wider crypto market cap has plummeted by $1 trillion, is one of the clearest… Read More

February 19, 2026 @ 3:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Zūm Rails announced that it will enable companies to embed credit card acceptance directly into its all-in-one payment ecosystems, creating custom checkout experiences for customers across the US and Canada. This final piece of Zūm Rails’ payments ecosystem was contingent upon it becoming… Read More

February 19, 2026 @ 9:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Entrust’s new report, 2026 Global State of Post-Quantum and Cryptographic Security Trends, brings both good and bad news. The good news is that more organizations are aware of the increasingly emerging threat, but the bad news is that fewer are preparing for it. The survey polled 4.149 senior IT,… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 6:02 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Levl, a unified platform powering fiat and stablecoin global payments, announced this week it has closed $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Galaxy Ventures with participation from Protagonist, Deus X, Blockchain Builders Fund, OpenFX, FalconX, CMCC, Variant Fund, and a strategic… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 4:32 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Webull (NASDAQ: BULL), owner of the Webull online investment platform, this week announced the global launch of its consolidated market data feed for overnight trading, designed to give investors greater transparency into liquidity and price discovery during the growing overnight U.S. equities trading session. Traditionally,… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Maestro AI, a vertical artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform built for mortgage origination, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by New Stack Ventures, with participation from Family VC, ZFO, Roark’s Drift, and a group of local angel investors. The capital will… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 2:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ:RZLV), a global facilitator of AI-driven commerce and payments infrastructure, has acquired Reward, a provider of customer engagement and commerce media, for $230 million. The acquisition brings together Reward’s engagement, intelligence and activation capabilities with Rezolve Ai’s conversational commerce and agentic AI platform… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 1:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

MoonPay, a facilitator of crypto payments, this week announced the launch of MoonPay Deposits, a solution that allows users to fund applications using crypto from an existing wallet, regardless of the token or blockchain. Users choose a token they would like to send, and MoonPay… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 12:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance welcomed Polygon Labs, Ethena, and Nethermind as members. The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is the institutional coordination layer for Ethereum – the neutral table where enterprises, infrastructure providers, and protocol teams align on how Ethereum is used in regulated, large-scale environments…. Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 11:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitwise Asset Management, a crypto asset manager, and WealthRabbit, a digital retirement plan platform for small businesses and individuals, have introduced diversified crypto portfolios to WealthRabbit clients. The new offering is available to all WealthRabbit clients on the firm’s investing portal, which allows investors to… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 10:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Provenir, a provider of AI risk decisioning, this week announced the launch of its comprehensive decision intelligence platform with new agentic AI features. Provenir’s Decision Intelligence platform brings together data, models, decisioning, and optimization in one continuous system. With the platform, organizations can transform raw… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fipto, a B2B payments and treasury firm, has partnered with Avenia, a Brazilian financial infrastructure provider, to launch a dedicated, two-way stablecoin corridor for EUR-BRL flows. Brazil is a global leader in digital payments, but the link to European markets is often a bottleneck for… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 4:21 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Truth Social Funds announced this week that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two exchange-traded funds: the Truth Social Cronos Yield Maximizer ETF and the Truth Social Bitcoin and Ether ETF. In connection with the proposed… Read More